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- From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt)
- Subject: Local Bus vs. ISA / EISA (compatibility of drivers)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.082900.13886@autelca.ascom.ch>
- Keywords: ISA EISA X-Windows UNIX LocalBus
- Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 08:29:00 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- Hi netters,
-
- I am in the market for a 486 EISA system.
- Now, I am wondering whether I should buy an EISA system with two local
- bus slots or not.
- This system will run DOS (in a small partition), OS/2 (in another partition)
- and UNIX.
- That means that I have to choose boards, e.g. for graphics, which are
- supported by all these OSes (DOS/MS-Windows, PM for OS/2 and X-Windows under
- UNIX).
- I know that there are drivers for all of these for 8514/A (or clones) and for
- boards with the ET4000 chipset.
- Now my question is, can I use the same driver for a certain board regardless
- whether the board is installed in one of the local bus slots or in the
- regular ISA resp. EISA slot ?
- Or, in other words, do I need a certain driver for the local bus board and
- a different one for the ISA-bus board ?
-
- If the same driver will work in both situations,
- then I could buy, e.g., a ET4000 local bus SVGA-board and still
- use the existing drivers for MS-Windows, the X-Window server (X386), etc.
- If not, I have to look for another EISA-Board or graphic board.
-
- Thank you for your help.
-
- If this question was asked million times in the past, I apologize.
- I was on vacation for several weeks and couldn't follow the discussion
- in this group, lately. In addition, this topic was brought to my
- attention just yesterday.
-
- Norbert.
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- Norbert Bladt, Ascom Autelca AG, Worbstr. 201, CH-3073 Guemligen, Switzerland
- Phone: +41 31 999 65 52 FAX: +41 31 999 65 44
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